Rob Penhallurick Boeken

In this lively and engaging textbook, Rob Penhallurick introduces readers to the diversity and history of the English language, and to relevant contemporary and classic work in linguistics.

Introduction.- Lexicography: From early works to The English Dialect Dictionary.- Lexicography: After The English Dialect Dictionary.- Cartography: European beginnings.- Cartography: Purpose, legacy, and the early linguistic atlases.- Cartography: The spread of language mapping.- Sociolinguistics.- After sociolinguistics.- Perceptual dialectology.- Geolinguistics.